Promotion

A big awards update here, nothing really warranting it's own story. There's the news that Steven Spielberg will not be getting the Cecil B. DeMille Golden Globe award this year, the announcement of the Directors Guild of America nominees for Best Director, and the winners of the People's and the Critics awards for the year.

Steven Spielberg will not be getting the Cecil B. DeMille Golden Globe award this year as was previously announced. This isn't down to anything negative on his part, just that with the writers strike cause the show to become a press conference it was deemed that it should be delayed until 2009, when he can be awarded it with style and a huge build up. The story comes from Variety.

The winner for the Directors Guild Best Director of 2007 will be announced later this month, and the competition is really fierce. Here are the nominees from the DGA site through Reuters.

Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood
Joel and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton
Sean Penn – Into the Wild
Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

That's a cracking list, and I'm dying to see some of these other films. Looking at the way things have been going the Coen's are surely front runners for the award with Anderson sitting a strong second.

I purposefully put the films at the beginning. A “threequel” there's an award for that now? What next? Prequel and sequel awards? Nothing too surprising there, although I'm surprised the favourite independent wasn't voted as Bourne or something considering how mainstream this list is.